I had an odd and interesting malf for the first time in my life while running a short pistol competition course yesterday with my SP-01 Tactical 9mm.
No fault of the pistol or ammo, and technically NOT a malfunction, yet the gun suffered a stoppage and wouldn't fire until cleared.
During one stage, I shot six rounds from tight to the left side of a barrel barricade, and the empties were bouncing off the barrel and going everywhere.
Just as I pulled the trigger on one of the shots in the middle of my string, an empty case came back down off the barrel and landed between the back of the slide and the hammer just as the hammer dropped. The hammer captured the case sideways against the back of the slide, preventing the hammer from reaching the firing pin. Perfect timing, and I cannot see repeating that with a million tries, LOL.
Took me by surprise, but I used my weak hand to wipe the hammer back and case out of the way and kept going for a decent time. First time for me, and the grizzled old RO said he had never seen it either.
